One of 2007's most important documentaries.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 17, 2020

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

This painful documentary ends on a hopeful note, although with a clear view of the cloud over human nature.

| Apr 28, 2011

A noble effort, but a flawed delivery. The film would benefit from more time spent with the real survivors, and less with actors tasked with "playing" the Western saviors.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 12, 2010

| Original Score: B- | Nov 6, 2009

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 18, 2008

The lesson here is not simply to vilify the Japanese soldiers of that era, but to make sure that we never forget who we are and what our country stands for today.

| Apr 13, 2008

A deft and dramatic melding of talking-head documentary, historic photos and film footage and readings by a cast of actors, the film is a devastating depiction of man's inhumanity to man. It is also about how some of us are brave enough to say 'No.'

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 14, 2008

Nanking bombards you with words and images of acts too barbaric to fully absorb.

| Feb 28, 2008

Nanking is a sometimes clumsy and sometimes artistically flawed documentary but in the end it presents a powerful account of what happened in Nanking at the end of 1937 and beginning of 1938.

Full Review | Feb 3, 2008

Sheds light on particular wartime atrocities largely neglected in the collective memory.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 1, 2008

A brutal introduction to events that should be better known.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 1, 2008

Nanking doesn't tell us why decency and compassion completely break down from time to time. It just tells us something terribly modern and all too familiar.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 1, 2008

A handsome documentary on a brutal subject, Nanking delves into the 1937 Japanese invasion of China and the atrocities committed in the attack...

| Original Score: B- | Jan 31, 2008

A harrowing look at how war takes its terrible toll on the innocent.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2008

Anyone who sees Nanking should know going in what a brutal story it is, but no one should miss it because of a restrictive rating.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 17, 2008

Even as history changes to accommodate current needs and frameworks, it's crucial to remember those who lived it.

Full Review | Jan 17, 2008

Highlights both the best and the worst that humanity has to offer.

| Original Score: B | Jan 11, 2008